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Difference between “strong reaction of relief” and “lassitude”When one expresses relief one is expressing satisfaction at knowing that the burden (whatever it was has passed). An expression of lassitude expresses weariness or lack of energy. While it may be the case that one may feel tired after taking on a heavy burden and carrying it to completion, and afterwards one may sigh with relief or sigh due to weariness, they express completely different sentiments.

“offered by him” or “he offers”?“cos” is cosine, the word is because and is sometimes shortened very informally to ’cuz. But your sentence doesn’t seem to be a case where this level of informality is warranted. Also offers is probably not the right verb. Maybe *requested, specified, demanded”

Does English have an expression like “nth day”?We can also just use the absolute dates: "I'll meet you on the 8th" which refers to the day of the month. @Lavya, your example is a little ambiguous. if today was July 16th and a Sunday and you wanted to meet someone on Tuesday the 18th would you say "the 18th day from today" or would you say, "the 2nd day from today" or would you say, "the 3rd day from today"?

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Does English have an expression like “nth day”?We typically say, "ndays from today". And since "1 day from today" can't mean today (that would be 0 days from today) we'd say "2 days from now" or "2 days from today" to mean Tuesday if today was Sunday.

How should I call “summer prepared” for a car?Yeah, when I lived in New York we did winterize things. But even now that I live in Arizona we never summer-ize anything. Summer just doesn’t require special treatment like winter does.

Is there a word for a group of software programmers?All groups of musicians are not an orchestra nor even a band. They might just be a bunch of like-minded individuals at a party. A group of programmers working together on the same project is generally called a team but a group of programmers at a party might be called a geek squad ;-)

Exclamation mark and question markThis is not standard punctuation. But I use it often in informal communications. I look at it this way: a punctuation mark punctuates what precedes it. A question mark marks something as a question and an exclamation mark makes something emphatic. So if you wish to question an emphatic statement then use !? if you wish to make an emphatic question use ?!

Word meaning “to make more accurate”?@SarahofGaia- The point is we don't really have such a word. We may have a context-specific word but you haven't given us a specific context. For example in some contexts calibrate could be used to improve accuracy. And a while a refinement does represent an improvement it is not always an improvement in accuracy.

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Future Tense HelpUse of should here is a ok, but a little stiff/dated. Most people nowadays would say, "If I don't receive my letter by the end of the week, I will pay my bill."